Returning other instance from __init__

[Paulo da Silva]

I would like to implement something like this:

class C1:
        def __init__(self,xxx):
                if ... :
                        self.foo = foo
                        self.bar = bar
                else:
                        self=C1.load(xxx)

        def load(xxx):
                ...
                return instance_of_C1
        load=staticmethod(load)

This does not seem correct. How can I do it?

Thanks for any help
Paulo
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